55. Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
Pearl Buck
Willa Cather
Carson McCullers
Flannery O’Connor
Edith Wharton

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Answers to Part Ten

46. The Newbery Medal is awarded to outstanding works of juvenile literature.
47. Jane Austen: 1775-1817. Napoleon Bonaparte: 1769-1821. Though the Napoleonic wars are alluded to only indirectly in Austen’s novels, many of her male characters serve in the British military.
48. In The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles relates the story of three Arab girls whose dream was to have tea in the Sahara.
49. Obsessed as she is with her weight, Bridget carefully notes down the number of calories she has eaten on any given day.
50. The White Queen says, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”